


gunter glieben glauchen globen

by 8sword



Category: Supernatural
Genre: Alternate Universe - Pacific Rim Fusion, F/F, scientists!
Language: English
Status: Completed
Published: 2014-01-14
Updated: 2014-01-14
Packaged: 2018-01-08 16:37:46
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Chapters: 1
Words: 4,562
Publisher: archiveofourown.org
Story URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/1134978
Author URL: https://archiveofourown.org/users/8sword/pseuds/8sword
Summary: <blockquote class="userstuff">
              <p>Emma starts to bristle, because just because she and Dean work for the same Marshal now doesn't mean he's the boss of her. But she doesn't get far, because if things are tense between her and Dean, it's nothing compared to how things are between Claire and Castiel Milton, the new-old Mach pilot whose last Jaeger missions was with Claire's father--on the mission James Novak died completing.</p>
<p>(In which Emma is Newt and Claire is Hermann. Tattoos, nerdiness, gratuitous sex, and a distinct lack of plot. )</p>
            </blockquote>





	gunter glieben glauchen globen

**Author's Note:**

> Warnings: S-E-X. Do not read further if you are uncomfortable with Emma/Claire or with allusions to not-entirely-healthy threesomes.
> 
> This fic was inspired mostly by lookatthesefreakinghipsters' delicious Destiel Pacific Rim AU and coaxed along at every step by the usual suspect, loversforlycanthropes, who puts up with me turning everything into angst. Thanks also to araftatsea and orange_8_hands, whose Emma/Claire fics made me brave enough to post this one. 
> 
> Title from Def Leppard's "Rock of Ages."

 

                "You're not even wearing gloves."

                Emma rolls her eyes. Then she shoves her arms elbow-deep into the kaiju guts and does jazz hands just to see Claire's nose wrinkle further at the squishing sounds.

                "You're disgusting."

                "Says the one who hasn't shaved her armpits since her last shore leave."

                "Says the one who's not going to contract an alien virus."

                "Dude!" Emma demands. "Who's the biologist here, you or me?"

                "It's a safety violation, and I'm going to tell Marshal La--"

                Emma flings out her hand indignantly--and blue goop spatters across Claire's keyboard.

                For a minute, they both stare at it. Then Claire's eyes slide to Emma, blazing. " _You_ \--"

                "Ladies!" comes a voice from the bulkhead door. They both whip around, and now it's Emma's turn to wince, because it's Marshal LaFitte, and he has Dean Winchester and the new-old Mach-2 pilot trailing behind him.

                Dean's eyes take in the blue dripping from Claire's keyboard and Emma's arms. "The hell's going on here?"

                Emma starts to bristle, because just because she and Dean work for the same Marshal now doesn't mean he's the boss of her. But she doesn't get far, because if things are tense between her and Dean, it's nothing compared to how things are between Claire and Castiel Milton, the new-old Mach pilot whose last Jaeger missions was with Claire's father--on the mission James Novak died completing.

                The pilot's already recognized Claire, his face going _Candida albicans_ -white. "Claire," he says.

                Emma falls quiet, watching him. Milton is an intriguing case, the only living human to have been connected to his Drift partner when he died, and it's hard not to wonder what effect that left on him, whether when he looks at Claire he sees his partner's daughter or his own, wonders how much of James Novak's mind is left in Milton's, wonders how much of Milton's was torn away with Novak. What would be more damaging, the loss of pieces of his own mind or the acquisition of more pieces than he was meant to contain? It's a terrible and fascinating thing to imagine, the memories of Claire's father lingering in Milton's synapses like neurotransmitters not reuptaken, blocking signals that should be going through and stimulating ones that no longer should.

                "You wanna put some fucking gloves on?"

                It's Dean, stomping over and ripping a set of latex gloves out of the container on Claire's desk to jam them on. He grabs the industrial-strength hose coiled up next to Emma's dissection table with one hand and grabs Emma's arm with the other, holding her still so he can spray off her arms.

                "Ow!" she hollers as the sprays hits her skin, revealing the tattoos covering her arms beneath the kaijuu goop. "Quit it, Dean, the pressure on this thing's like 10 kilopascals!"

                "Maybe you should've thought of that before you went sticking your hands in kaiju shit!"

                "It's not shit, it's intestinal contents--"

                "Same thing!"

                "No, it's not!" Emma shouts. "It's like magma and lava, it's one thing before it comes out and something else afterward!"

                Marshal LaFitte clears his throat. "Much as I love talkin' 'bout kaiju crap," he drawls, "I came here for a briefing, not a vocabulary lesson."

                Emma closes her mouth. Dean turns off the hose and towels her inked arms dry. Emma submits to the action, glaring at her feet, her cheeks puffed out petulantly.

                "I'll go first." Claire's voice is as clipped as the click of her steel-toed boots on the floor as she steps toward her desk. She pushes her holoprojector to the edge of it to make the projection more visible for everyone, then presses a button. A roughly hourglass-shaped projection appears: the Breach. She explains her sobering discovery in as simplified a set of partial differential equations as she can, turning to face them all when she's done.

                Everyone looks pretty blank-faced, except for Castiel Milton, who is frowning at the equations floating in the projection.

                "So that's your report?" LaFitte says slowly. "That the drop's going to fail?"

                "I'm sorry, Marshal," Claire says, her tone not particularly apologetic. "Would you rather I lie and tell you to take what may be the last nuclear reactor you'll ever be able to get your hands on into a spatial anomaly that may only be ripped further open by the reaction?"

                Nobody has much of an answer to that. Except Emma, who says, "Maybe _I_ can wipe that frown off your face, Marshal."

                LaFitte turns. "Please, _chère_."   

                Emma flicks a smug _he called me chère_ look at Claire and rolls her chair over to them. "So the kaiju are the ones who opened up the breach, right?"

                "That's an _assumption_ ," Claire says. "We have no proof that they have any more sentience than simple predators--"

                "Yeah, except for their highly developed frontal lobes," Emma retorts. "And--oh, yeah! The fact that they have _four_ of them!"

                "Oh, and since _our_ frontal lobes evolved to control executive function, the brains of life-forms from a completely different dimension _must_ have evolved exactly the same way," Claire says sarcastically.

                Emma spins toward the Marshal. "Benny, do you want to hear what I have to say or not?"

                "Hey!" Dean barks. "Could we at least tryto address the Marshal with a little respect?"

                "Oh, I'm sorry," Emma says. "Do you want me to call him Marshal LaFitte? Or maybe I should just call him Dad, since he's the one who pretty much raised me!"

                If the silence was knife-edged before, it's shuriken-sharp now. Dean looks like he's been slapped, color rushing to the surface of his skin. Emma pretends not to notice, blowing humidity-wisped hair out of her face and going over to the half-liquefied brain in the tank on her own crap-covered desk.

                "Here's the thing," she says, voice too loud in the silence. "We don't even need to assume that the kaijuu deliberately opened the breech. The bottom line is that they know _how_ to get through it. They're not disoriented when they emerge, like they just happened to wander through. Their trajectories have been bee-lines for major cities ever since Morningstar and Scapegoat. And if they know how to get _out_ of the breach, they must know how to get _in_."

                That's when Castiel Milton speaks. His voice is lower than Emma would have expected, probably from all the construction dust he's breathed in while working on the Wall. Between that and his radiation exposure in the kaijuu, the guy's a walking mass of cancer risk factors, she thinks with some pity. "Are you proposing a Drift with the kaijuu?"

                "WHAT?!"

                Emma narrows her eyes at Dean, then shoots Milton a _you suck_ look. That had _not_ been the  way she planned to ease into this. "It makes sense! If we can initiate a neural handshake with human brains, why shouldn't we be able to do it with a kaijuu brain?"

                "What don't you understand about the concept of _alien life form_?" Claire says. "Seventeen people died from experiments just to link up human brains, and you want us to jump into drifting with things that bleed blue _goo_?"

                Emma ignores her. "Marshal?"

                LaFitte's studying her with his pale blue eyes. He, at least, seems to be giving the thought some consideration--giving _her_ some consideration.

                But after a moment he shakes his head. "No. 'M sorry, darlin', I just can't allow that kind of risk."

                Emma wilts, submitting to Benny in a way she never would to Dean. "I understand," she mumbles.

                She rolls her sleeves back down over her arms as everyone gathers around Claire's desk again to study the Breach schedule projections she's put together. She feels Dean's eyes on her and focuses hard on rebuttoning her cuffs, like it takes all her concentration to get the fake pearl buttons back into their holes, and maybe it does, because her hands are trembling, suddenly.

 

\- o -

 

                She's stripping off her shirts when Claire gets back from her briefing with Benny. As the civilians at the bottom of the military-but-not Shatterdome totem pole, they got stuck sharing a room, although at least theirs has an en suite shower cubicle--probably because the Marshal didn't want them dragging Kaijuu guts into the communal bathrooms and starting Kaijuu Blue scares. The base's dehumidifers are on the fritz again, making things alternately nosebleed-dry or rainforest-disgusting, and right now it's the latter. Emma swipes sweat from the back of her neck and from under her boobs with her balled-up over shirt, the off-white ruffled one that was fairly nice this morning  but has sweat and guts and formaldehyde on it now.

                Claire stands in the open doorway for a moment. "Were you going to take a shower?"

                Emma doesn't look over her shoulder. "Were you?"

                Claire is silent for a minute. Finally she shuts the door and comes inside. "Yeah, I guess."

                Emma pulls her sports bra over her head, snaps the band against her ribs. "See you later, then."

                She grabs her gym bag on the way out, though by now Claire probably knows where she's really going. One of these days Emma really will go to the sparring rooms instead, slam out her anger and self-frustration on a mat instead of a mattress, but today's not that day.

 

\- o -

 

                There's a mechanic on fourth level who's always up for a fuck. But Emma's not so much in the mood to dominate tonight as to be dominated. She's done enough damage trying to take charge today--with her dad, with the Breach.

                Abbadon's lounging back in a chair next to her bunk when Emma gets there. She's naked, smoke curling from the cigarette between her long fingers. Smoking isn't generally allowed inside, but being a pilot of one of the last four Jaegers on the planet lets you get away with a hell of a lot. She smiles when she sees Emma in the doorway, her bright red lips curling up, and closes them around her cigarette again.

                "Well," she says. "Look who decided to join us."

                Eve's on Abbadon's bunk. The sheets are rumpled and twisted under her; she's got one knee pulled up, bent lazily to the side as she strokes a finger up and down one glistening pink lip. She considers Emma with her thoughtful dark eyes, continuing to stroke.

                Emma stays in the doorway. The first time this happened, she stepped back, stammering an apology.

                It isn't her first time anymore.

                Abbadon stumps her cigarette out on the nightstand. "C'mere, _baby_."

                Emma closes the door. Eve watches her strip off her shirt, her bra, everything else. Watches as Abbadon pulls Emma down onto her lap and licks up the tattoos on her back until Emma's panting against the arm around her ribs and the sensation of Abbadon's mouth around her vertebrae, her thigh against the place where Emma's slick. Abbadon's arm is hooked under the cage of her ribs, the other one grinding a thumb into her nipples, and Emma's nearly crying from sensation by the time Abbadon pushes her onto the bed and makes her crawl up the mattress to press her face to Eve.

 

\- o -

 

                Claire's still awake when Emma comes in. She glances up from the book on her pillow but doesn't say anything, and maybe Emma should be grateful for that, because she thinks if she did, she might punch Claire in the face. Not a jaw shot, either, she'd aim for the nose, aim for a satisfying _crunch_ and spray of blood, and then Benny and Dean would come running in here and find Emma stinking of sex and smoke.

                But Claire's quiet. And she stays quiet, as Emma crawls under her sheets. As Emma shifts and squeezes her eyes tightly shut against the light from Claire's lamp. As Emma rolls under her covers, turning her back to Claire's side of the room, and to her lamp.

                There's the sound of a page turning. Of a book being closed. Of the lamp being switched off.

                Then Claire says, "I hope you use better protection with Jaeger pilots than with kaiju guts."

                Hatred explodes in Emma. Like something clawing its way out of the Breach. She grips her pillow, breathing hard. Her breasts hurt, her thighs hurt, her insides hurt. She wishes she'd never opened her goddamned mouth in the hanger this morning.

                "You're not the only one who needs a hate fuck, you know," Claire's voice says. Bitter.

                "That a request, baby?" Sharp, sarcastic.

                Claire sits up in the darkness, a snap of sheets. "So what if it is?" she demands. "At least I see you as a human being."

                Emma curls around her pillow.

                "You're a toy to them. You know they don't give two shits about anyone who's not a pilot."

                Emma's not stupid. She knows that. The rugburn across her knees knows that. It's a burning, present reminder, and as Claire sighs irritably in the darkness behind her Emma imagines kaiju goop, cold and thick, the way it would soothe the burn, numb it.

                She falls asleep imagining the sensation.

 

\- o -

 

                There's this one kaiju that emerged from the Breach early on, before they had categories and classifications and all those pretty things that made kaiju easier to turn into trading cards for school kids. If there had been categories back then, this thing would've been a five. It was fucking huge. The-same-length-as-Madagascar huge, if the classified radar records Emma's dug up have any level of accuracy.

                Thing is, official record asserts that the kaiju code-named Gadreel wasn't anything at all. That it was just some glitch on the early Breach detection systems, because the fucking snake of a behemoth didn't _do_ anything. It just blipped on the radar coming out of the fissure and then... Gone. No trace of it. The Jaegers sent out never encountered it, not even after a fifteen-hour grid search. And there weren't any kaiju attacks until the next ones came out of the Breach--two lame-ass Category Threes christened Leming and Buck that barely got two klicks before Holy Terror took them down.

                But Emma's obsessed with it. Obsessed with the idea of the kaiju code-named Gadreel slithering around the world with no one the wiser, like a microbe inside a body, silently reproducing as the immune system soldiers on, oblivious. An invisible noose slowly winding its way around the equator, ready to snap the world's neck before anyone ever realizes it's there.

                Its long, sinuous lines have been twisting up her abdomen for two years now. Around her umbilicus, in and out of the ridges of her ribs. Up the line of her sternum and clavicles. She was drunk the night she got it, or must have been, waking up the next morning to the outline of it stinging up her stomach. She doesn't regret it, exactly, but she's never gotten it finished and colored, either, and it's like a phantom on her skin, as maybe-there-maybe-not as the kaiju itself.

                Like now.

                She takes a deep breath and lowers the homemade Pons onto her head.

 

\- o -

 

                Memories of her dad crying in the next room. Of someone telling her something about her grandpa. Of a time that must have come much later, clinging to Benny's pant leg as he tried to coax her to talk to a tired-looking man in dusty combat fatigues on the computer screen.

                Of her uncle Sam, huge and towering, stooping to give her a teddy bear that smelled of sand and heat.

                Of going to meetings with Benny, crawling under the conference table to play Barbies as men and women came and went, using serious voices and watching serious things on the big screen at the other end of the room.

                Of creeping from under the table when they weren't looking to pull some of the photographs they had under the table with her, and study the hulking shapes, the glistening skin, and the bright, cobalt blue that covered them.

                Of a room painted that same color, and someone leaning over her, singing--

 

\- o -

 

                "Emma?" The papers fall from Claire's hands, flutter to the slime-covered floor and stick, moisture traveling across them fast as blood. Emma's head is limp in her lap, lolls as Claire grabs it, as she holds her forehead still to rip the Pons free, the electrodes. Dark red blood streaks from the inner corner of her eyes, slippery against Claire's thumb as she holds Emma's face, as she tries to shake her awake. "Emma!"

                Blood from her nose, too, hot and slippery, and Claire casts about her for something to staunch it with, anything. Emma's half-open bag is a foot away; Claire grabs it, grabs the spare tampon inside the front pocket, strips it. Inserts it in Emma's nose so much more gently than she deserves. "You idiot, you _idiot_ \--"

                Her hands are shaking.

                "Wha's goin' on?" Benny behind her, his voice a bellow, scared, and someone's behind him, someone deathly quiet; it's Winchester, running toward them and dropping to his knees so fast his the polycarbonate of his Drivesuit skids shrilly against the floor. He reaches for Emma, rocks back. Stares at her, lips parted. His face is as pale as hers.

                "She Drifted." Castiel's voice; he's kneeling beside Claire, peeling Emma's eyelid back to expose blown pupil, the black leaking out into the sclera like a broken yoke, like a reverse pterygium, because yes, Claire knows what that is, picks up a lot more from Emma than Emma thinks, and please, _please_ , Emma, just wake _up_ \--

                Castiel pulls something from his side. He holds it under Emma's nose. Emma jack-knifes upright, her clavicle hitting Claire's wrist bones at just the right angle to fucking hurt, and Claire's squeezing her so hard she can practically feel Emma's lungs expanding against her stomach. "You IDIOT."

                Emma's coughing. Trying to suck in air through the tampon in her nose, around the blood that flowed into her mouth before Claire got there. She finds Claire's knee beside her and grabs onto it, grips as weakly as a newborn kitten, and her voice shakes when she rasps, "Where's Benny?"

 

\- o -

 

                There's no time, after that. No time to do anything before Emma leaves the Shatterdome to seek out Dorothy Bomb in the city.

                Claire follows her anyway. Corners her against the wall when they're in their quarters and the heavy iron door's fallen shut.

                "What," Emma begins with brittle impatience, pulling the tampon out of her nose. She grimaces at the pulling sensation deep inside her nose, like her brains are being peeled out, and then Claire's kissing her, tasting dried tacky blood on her tongue, sour and coppery.

                It takes a moment for Emma's lips to move around hers. And then it's not a kiss, it's words, it's "I'm a biohazard here, Claire," it's Claire breathing, "Shut up" into her mouth, it's Emma's breath hitching, and splintering, and _crying_.

                "I was so scared," she's telling Claire's face, her hot wet cheek, and her hands are spiders on Claire's back, scrabbling and clinging and small. "You know that part--that part in Aladdin--when the weight thing gets tied to his foot and he--he just gets dragged down, and it was like that and Claire I didn't know if I was ever gonna come back _up_ \--"

                A hiccup. A sob. Claire holding her close, cupping her scapulae where they jut from her back sharp as blades, as naked bones, slick and glistening where they push the sweat-soaked tank top away from her spine. "Shh. Shhh. You're here. I've got you."

                "Feels like there's a hole in there now," Emma whispers. Is this what her father felt, is that what Claire's dad felt while he was dying? "Like a drain, like, like it's waiting to suck me back down."

                Claire's hands slide to Emma's face. She grips her jaw, pushing their foreheads together.

                "Then I'll suck harder," she murmurs fiercely, and sucks Emma's bottom lip into her mouth.

                 She sucks until Emma doesn't taste like copper anymore and then until she does, lip swollen and fat with the blood Claire's teeth are pulling to the surface, throbbing under the thin skin. And there's a watery sound coming from Emma, something dragged from the depths, a laugh, and her hands are turning into fingers instead of claws, holding onto to Claire as she pulls back.

                She asks: "Did you really just say something that dumb?"

                It's not the same question her eyes are asking, as they search Claire's. But this isn't the time for declarations of love or obsession or insecurity, so Claire just answers with another wet kiss. Emma participates this time, closing her mouth around Claire's top lip and closing her eyes like she's savoring one of the blue Jolly Ranchers she always keeps in her desk drawer. Warm and wet and wonderful, and it takes everything to pull away so that they can go help save the world.

               

\- o -

 

                Things are muffled afterward. Maybe Drifting and maybe grieving, or maybe both. Easier to pretend she's watching everything through Claire's eyes than through hers. Easier to see the flag draped over Benny's empty coffin, rippling in the wind off the water. Easier to feel her father's splinted shoulder against hers as he stands at attention through the ceremony, mouth trembling.

                Easier to lie back on the bunk and let Claire cover her with her weight.

                "You dressed up," Claire says into her neck.

                Emma doesn't say anything. Wraps her arms around Claire's neck and tries to get her legs around Claire, too. The uniform skirt is too constricting for her to open them. She arches up into Claire instead, heart pounding hard in the stiff brown uniform coat that covers her arms.

                Claire pushes her back down. Unbuttons the coat, the starched white uniform shirt beneath it. Leaves the blood-red tie knotted around her collar, and it lies silk-heavy against Emma's breastbone, between the beige cups of her bra. Claire follows its edges with the tip of her nose. Her breath lifts gooseflesh along Emma's stomach from the contrast between cold air and warm breath. Her bra feels too tight, chafing, like her skin. She needs out. She needs _out_.

                "Hey," Claire whispers. Presses her forehead to the space beneath Emma's ribs and breathes. Shaky. Then there's wet heat, suddenly, two spots of it, and the ghostly brush of eyelashes, and as Claire's shoulders quake above her, all the things heaving up to the surface of Emma crash back down.

                "Hey," she whispers shakily back, and holds Claire's sides. Fits the insides of her hands to the lowest curves of her ribs, strokes Claire's blouse with her thumbs.

                Claire shudders, and presses closer.

 

\- o -

 

                "Do you still...?" Claire murmurs later.

                Emma rolls over in answer. Pushes her back up off the bed to get her bra unhooked. Claire pushes up on an elbow, watches the progress of Emma's bra away from her breasts, the nipples pebbling in the cold air. She grazes her knuckles just barely against them, watches them harden.

                She lowers her mouth. Emma inhales when it closes around her. "Claire," she grits out, and clenches fingers in Claire's hair.

                Claire's mouth moves. Her knee, too, pushing into the mattress between Emma's to part her legs. She pulls off to shuffle backward on her knees and elbows, to sit back on her heels to hike the uniform skirt up Emma's knees to make more space. The fabric resists, and Claire growls and Emma huffs, then huffs a laugh, and then with a great yank comes a loud _rip_ , and they both catch their breaths as they stare down as the ruined seam of the hideous skirt.

                Then Emma says, "See? This is why we don't have nice things."

                Breathless laughter. The uncertain kind that becomes the relieved kind that becomes Claire sliding her splayed hands up Emma's open legs all the way to the creases where her legs meet her hips and her thumbs are in a warm, secret place, brushing against a string of fabric.

                Emma flushes defensively as Claire's eyes lift to hers. "Charlie said you can't wear regular underwear with these skirts."

                Claire smiles. A flash of smile, the kind bitten at the side by teeth that are afraid of showing too much joy, of inviting disappointment. She ducks her head, butts her forehead against Emma's. Cups her hands beneath her knees and climbs backward off the bed.

                Emma struggles up, uncertain. "Claire--"

                The breath whooshes out of her as Claire yanks. She lands on her back, bouncing once on the mattress, and then there's Claire's hands and her open mouth, hot breath and scraping teeth.

                Emma pitches forward with a cry, knees clamping. She gasps hard and ragged, arching hard against the sensation. "Claire Claire _Claire_ \--" Her breath breaks on the last word, hands clenching in the sheets and trembling as hard as the rest of her. Claire digs her thumbs in and licks her through the aftermath. Emma shudders and writhes, and when Claire finally pulls back, she drags her nose up Emma  before she pushes to her feet.

                Emma stares at her from the bed, panting. Gadreel heaves up and down on her skin. Her hand trails up it, fingertips brushing, and the barest hint of uncertainty filters into her expression.

                "Stop," Claire says, almost gently. She climbs back onto the bed.

                Emma hesitates, then puts her hand on Claire's waist. Pushes it under her blouse, upward. Biting her lip, watching Claire the whole time. Claire watches back, looking half amused and half like she's holding her breath. The side of her mouth is glistening in the light from the half-open door to the bathroom, and so is the tip of her nose, and Emma feels half as if she is about to catch fire and half as if she is about to burst into alarmingly hysterical laughter.

                She reaches for Claire to hide it. Takes big handfuls of Claire's skirt the way Claire had hers and turns Claire around, tugs down the zipper in the back with her teeth. Her skirt slides off over her white slip silky-smooth, and Claire comes with it, into Emma's lap, mouth opening over hers as she slings her arms around Emma's shoulders. Emma's eyes fall shut; she pushes up into Claire's mouth with her own, smile forming as she drags her hands up Claire's sides. Claire's blouse has buttons in the front, too, and Emma begins to undo them as they kiss, slides her hands inside the moment there's enough room.

                Then she goes still.

                "Oh my God," she says. Her voice is muffled by a mouthful of Claire's tongue. "You _still_ haven't shaved?"

                Claire laughs and pulls back, rolls them back to the middle of the bed. She catches Emma's wrists in one hand and pins them to the pillow above their heads. "Maybe someone shouldn't have taken so long in the shower."

                Emma starts to retort something, then hisses and twists as Claire hooks a finger under her thong and runs her fingernail curiously back and forth. "Oh, _God_ \--you suck, you know that?"

                "Mmm." Claire lowers her head until her nose touches Emma's, her eyes gleaming in the dim blue light from the digital clock beside the bunk. "I promised you I would."

                And she does.

                Hard.

 

 

 

 

 

 


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